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On May 3, 2012, Professor Frank Emmert presented on "The Iranian Nuclear Program and the Response of Israel, the EU, and the US: Law and Policy Options in an American Election Year" at Stanford Law School. Dr. Emmert discussed the ambiguity of the Iranian program in the context of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, including the options available to the West. Other issues he addressed included: Should Israel prevent the development of an Iranian nuclear bomb with a pre-emptive strike on Iran's research and enrichment facilities? Could the EU and US influence Iran and Israel toward an outcome that ensures long-term peace and security in the region?

Professor Emmert is the John S. Grimes Professor of Law, as well as the Director of the law school's Center for International and Comparative Law. He joined the law school faculty in the summer of 2003. He founded of the European Journal of Law Reform in 1997 and continues to serve on its editorial board. Before his appointment at IU he was a visiting professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has also served as Dean of Concordia International University Estonia School of Law, Executive Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Lecturer in European and International Law at the European institute of Basle University. He has taught courses at the Universities of Strasbourg (France), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana and Maribor (Slovenia), Prague (Czech Republic), St. Gall (Switzerland), the College of Europe (Poland), as well as Stanford Law School and Rutgers University School of Law.